"UNDESIRABLES ONCE MORE."

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 403, 12 January 1909, Page 5

"UNDESIRABLES ONCE MORE."

POST OFFICE SAFE DYNAMITED. ' JEWELLERY, MONEY, AND STAMPS ; . TAI£EN. A case of safe-dynamiting occurred at the Post Offico Parcels Post Department in Brandon Street sorho time between Sunday night and yesterday morning. Tho office, which is. on the second floor of the building, was locked up at 5 o'clock on Sunday evening, and when the first of the employees" went to.open up at 8 o'clock yesterday morning it was found that the door was already unlocked. Further investigations showed that the lock had been broken open, and uninvited visitqrs had been present. : Smoko still hung about the room,/and the safe door was open, a portion of it apparently having been shattered by a powerful explosive. About a yard of fuse was" picked up off the floor and a round hole was found' to be., cut in a window opposite the! safe. The robber . or. robbers were well rewarded for ..their misplaced daring, as the safe contained a number of registered letters which had come in overnight,. also cash .and stamps; the strong room, downstairs having been, locked .. up when the officer in charge left. ' It is stated that the stamps taken, ranging in value from 4d. to Is., wero worth about £66 in all, whilst the amount of cash removed;was about-£34. Of the registered packages purloined, three articles, a silver jug . valued at £15, jewellery valued at £12, and another parcel-of jewellery valued' at £11 were covered by insurance.' •